Forsaken, for Our Oneness

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me?...Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me."  John 14:10a, 11a

Jesus,

One with the Father,

cherished by Him from eternity past,

became sin on the cross.

Jesus became our pride, 

and our lust,

and our foolishness, 

and our rebellion and hostility towards God.

The list goes on and on.

The Father no longer took joy and pleasure in His Son.
The Son became abhorrent to the Father.
He pulled away and turned from the Son.
The oneness was gone.

His feelings for Jesus turned to righteous anger,

and in fury He poured His wrath out on Jesus.

Jesus,

sin hanging on a tree,

feeling the crush of His Father's wrath,

cried out,

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!"

His body, crushed,

and His heart, was crushed also,
for you, and me.

Then, "It is finished" fell from His lips.

The plan made from before the creation of the world was accomplished. 

The price for sin was paid, in full.

The Lamb of God, the Son, had been crushed by the Father's wrath

so His sheep, His gifts from the Father, His chosen - could be forgiven.

Jesus committed His spirit into His Father's hands, His scourged, pierced body going limp.  His bloodied and shredded body was then placed in a tomb where it lay for the next three days and three nights...but the forsaking was over, and the oneness between Jesus and the Father was restored, and will never be broken again, and we are lovingly held in Their oneness for all eternity, too.

"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me."  John 17:22,23